The Captured steamer Yorktown.
--This fine vessel, now in possession of a portion of our volunteer service, has much less claim to indemnity from seizure on the part of
Virginia than many of our citizens within our hearing had suggested.
The capital stock of the entire company is placed upon the books as $300,000. Of this, only about one-seventh is owned in
Virginia, the remainder having been subscribed by Northern merchants.
The statement of this fact, derived from an undoubted source, will at once allay a sense of punctilio, which, being unfamiliar with the usage of war, still lingers with some of our citizens.--In securing this prize, a steamer of 1,250 tons burthen, Custom-House measurement, we have, to say the least, a transport for material and men of war, which must prove of the most essential service in an hour of need; and, even were there no ulterior motive, that of retaliation is enough to give us joy for the event.
We learn that the steamship
Jamestown was seized at
City Point yesterday evening, by a detachment of Petersburg Volunteers, and that, after the act of confiscation, a guard was placed over her, and she was chained to the wharf.
D. B. Bridgford,
Commissary of the First Regiment, and others, who had proceeded down the river in the tow-boat
Wm. Allison, Wednesday night, in search of a surveying schooner, in the employment of the late U. S. Government, which had lately been taking observations below this city, not having been successful in their search, landed at
City Point, and assisted in the above affair.--The party from
Richmond also took in custody the ship
Argo, of
Bath, Maine, whose captain is said to be an arch-traitor and incendiary, after the fashion of
Greeley,
Beecher,
Webb & Co. It will soon be evident to our Northern neighbors (?) that they will have to clear out, bag and baggage, from this part of the country.
Like the ticketless passenger on the railroad, they will, ere long, be emptied by the wayside.
P. S.--We learned last night, at 9 o'clock, that the
Government schooner mentioned above had been taken, and was
en route for this city in tow of the tug-boat
Allison.
The steamship
Jamestown was released from arrest at
City Point, on promise of
Capt. Skinner to bring her to this city, which he did by 9 o'clock last night.
She is now at
Rocketts, alongside of her consort, the
York-town.
